In the remake, the coach’s outfit is darker, his sunglasses' lenses are now fully black, and he also looks more realistic. In Just Dance: Greatest Hits/ Best Of, when the song ends, the dancer turns to a white blur. He begins by materializing from glass and ends by shattering into glass shards. He is also wearing a pink and dark purple hat, pink pants, yellow and white striped socks, and purple and white shoes. He is wearing a red and white checkered shirt with orange suspenders and glasses. 2.2 Just Dance: Greatest Hits (Wii)/ Just Dance: Best Of.There are a bunch of exclusive perks only for patrons: playlists, newsletters, downloads, discussions, polls - hell, tell us what song you would like to hear covered and we will make it happen. Cover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. After some light scatting and shimmering cymbal, we are left wanting more, with a fadeout worthy of an encore. In the call-and-response, the “ladies” get their own chance to shine with powerful harmonies. Instead, we’re swaying slowly, bobbing our heads to the laid-back beat. We’re no longer frantically shaking anything. We’ll close with a dreamy, soulful cover that really stands out. This one forces us to slow down it even eases us in with a little taste of their setup before they get started. In this cover the final “hey ya”s sound like a freedom cry. In the call-and-response section, the song becomes just some friends jamming. The musicians don’t take themselves too seriously either. Some may think the vocals are too rough, but to me, they come off as emotionally raw and appropriate for the will they/won’t they duality this song evokes. They are delivered almost as if the singer is slamming on a video game controller and ordering his character to “shake it” instead of “jump” or “run.” Another vocalist joins in now their respective characters are dueling. The sounds are stereotypical video game sounds (someone is definitely doing the robot to this version), yet the effect somehow isn’t cheesy. Now we’re really changing it up, with a full-on techno cover. The song then quickly ends with an original element, a self-preservation “I’m too cool for this” chant. The vocals build in intensity, and a chorus joins in, the emotion swelling. The tone changes some electronic old-school arcade gaming noises escalate. However, once the admission comes that the singer is not happy here, he breaks loose. This cover starts by really leaning into the sadness, providing a recount of the singer’s baby, perhaps gone with no hope of return. The ending “hey ya”s are calling out for something. The almost desperate “lend me some sugar” plea is also balanced with the upbeat “shake it”s.
The song is definitely on the somber side, but elements like the childlike xylophone and the deep “ice cold”s maintain some child-like cheer. The ukulele is fitting of the beach setting in the episode, and the barbershop quartet vibes are in line with the reoccurring band these characters form. Yes, this cover was technically inspired by Obadiah Parker daring to go acoustic, but in the spirit of nostalgia, I have to give preference to this a cappella wonder featured in the wind down of the television show Scrubs. Until then let’s hear some others reimagine “Hey Ya!”
With the backlog of weddings postponed because of the pandemic, will 2022 finally see the resurgence of this essential rite of passage for a newly married couple? Time will tell. I have personally been the one shaking it like a Polaroid picture on the wedding reception dance floor and wow, do I want to be doing that again. Is it a happy song? Is it a sad song? Do we really care? The song topped FiveThirtyEight’s data-driven ultimate wedding playlist, and this checks out. A call-and-response, a coined dance move, and references to Beyoncé and Lucy Liu. Both became instant dance-floor classics. The first two singles promoted one song of each: “The Way You Move” (which definitely deserves its own Cover Me post at some point) and “Hey Ya!”. In this double album, Speakerboxxx represented Big Boi’s vision while The Love Below represented André 3000’s. Jackson,” but the Speakerboxxx/The Love Below album quickly became the duo’s biggest commercial success. Big Boi and André 3000 began to crossover to pop with songs like “ Ms. Outkast has been hugely influential in the rap genre, and the duo has been innovating since their first album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik was released in 1994.
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